# Columbus Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061524001922`
- **School name**: Columbus Elementary
- **Location**: Glendale, CA 91203
- **Address**: 425 West Milford St.
- **District**: Glendale Unified (LEAID `0615240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.15302, -118.26172
- **Phone**: (818)242-7722

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 488
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Yellow
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.6% proficient — 204 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.8% (90 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (16 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (9 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.0%
- **Black/African American**: 11.2%
- **Asian**: 1.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,543
- **Federal share**: $1,325
- **State + local share**: $16,218
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 492
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,160,699
- **Federal share**: 20.4%
- **State share**: 50.7%
- **Local share**: 28.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,462,148

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,145
- **Poverty rate**: 23.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.1%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,381
- **Foreign-born residents**: 55.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 14
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 54
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.92 miles (OVROM PARK AND SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GLENDALE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Daily (Allan F.) High (Continuation)** — 0.7 mi away, 11.11% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Jewel City Community Day** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Thomas Edison Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 16.8%)
- **R. D. White Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 14.9% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Herbert Hoover High** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Thomas Edison Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 56.5% (this school: 41.3%)
- **R. D. White Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 43.1% (this school: 41.3%)
- **Eleanor J. Toll Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 50.9% (this school: 41.3%)
- **Herbert Hoover High** — 1.0 mi away, 44.3% (this school: 41.3%)
- **Mark Keppel Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 53.1% (this school: 41.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Mark Keppel Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Glenfeliz Boulevard Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Glenoaks Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Verdugo Woodlands Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Delevan Drive Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbus-elementary-glendale/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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